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BAE Systems to provide electric-drive products for transit buses in Southern California
ENDICOTT, N.Y. — BAE Systems, which manufactures heavy-duty electric propulsion systems, will provide El Dorado National (California)(ENC) with its Gen3 product line for its next-generation,

Caggiano returns to VIP Structures’ IT department
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — VIP Structures recently announced that Michelle Caggiano has returned to the company’s enterprise-wide IT department. She will help expand the company’s IT Support Group, and help “keep VIP at the leading edge of technology implementation,” the Syracuse–based design-build firm said in a news release. VIP Structures is a more than 45-year-old firm

Lockheed Martin’s suburban Syracuse plant wins $22 million Navy contract modification
SALINA, N.Y. — The Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems unit in the town of Salina was recently awarded a $22.1 million modification to a previously won contract from the U.S. Navy. The firm-fixed-price contract modification is to exercise options for Advanced Off-Board Electronic Warfare System Low Rate Initial Production units, according to a Sept.
Lockheed Martin Owego plant awarded more than $30 million Navy contract modification
OWEGO, N.Y. — Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Owego plant has won a more than $30.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previously awarded contract from the U.S. Navy. This adjustment “adds scope to provide for the design and development of the Advanced Digital Receiver/Processor (ADRP) upgrade to the existing E-2D AN/ALQ-217 Electronic Support Measures Receiver/Processor, as well

Workshop covers technology to improve quality of health care
Focused on utilizing solutions while ensuring cybersecurity UTICA, N.Y. — Quanterion Solutions, Inc. recently facilitated a local workshop to demonstrate the potential impact of an Internet of Things (IoT) Living Laboratory by leveraging IoT medical technologies to improve health-care accessibility and quality of care. The workshop focused on utilizing solutions while ensuring cybersecurity. Quanterion brought together

Federal, state laws provide incentives for Micron to build chip plant in Clay
CLAY, N.Y. — State and federal officials, along with the leadership at Micron Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), point to the federal CHIPS and Science Act and New York’s Green CHIPS program as legislation that provided the incentives for Micron to choose Central New York for a semiconductor manufacturing facility. Without the CHIPS and Science Act,

McFarland Johnson names appointees to ESOP trust
Bulman is joined by newly appointed trustee Christopher Kopec, regional director of facilities, and currently serving trustee, company VP Jeff Wood. Bulman joined McFarland Johnson
Lockheed Martin’s Salina plant awarded $26.4M Navy contract modification
SALINA, N.Y. — Lockheed Martin Corp.’s (NYSE: LMT) plant in suburban Syracuse recently won a nearly $26.4 million modification to a previously awarded contract from the U.S. Navy. This Lockheed Martin Rotary and Missions Systems firm-fixed-price contract adjustment is to procure provisioned-item order spare parts and exercise options to procure C(V)6 systems in support of

AFRL Rome Lab awards L3 Harris Technologies more than $12M contract
ROME, N.Y. — The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Rome has awarded L3Harris Technologies Inc., of Rochester, a nearly $12.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for cloud-based architecture software. Under this pact, L3Harris Technologies will research, design, integrate, test, and evaluate in support of improving and demonstrating the utility of modality-independent data standards. It will also

Micron CEO outlines why his firm chose Clay for chip plant
SYRACUSE — The CEO of Micron Technology Inc. CEO (NASDAQ: MU) said his company chose the White Pine Commerce Park in Clay to build a semiconductor-manufacturing facility “for several reasons.” They include the region’s “rich pool of diverse talent,” including those communities that are underrepresented in technology jobs and a “significant” military population. “Over the
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